If you are able to crack a smile even through the tears, the new album of Polish band PAST will be exactly for you! Their raw sound can't deny countrymen of SIEKIERAs classics - they can be as cold as X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND, but full of hope and energy, they can also give you new zest for life. They are more melodic than VANNA INGET and more melancholic than MAKTHEVERSKAN. On the LP "Black/White", the 80's post-punk gets a distinctive character also thanks to the strong vocal of the singer Gosia, who really performs her dissatisfaction with the state of today's world with expression and is not satisfied with a vacant "singing". She's got an opinion, she complains, calms down, screams, she can dream away and get angry and her fellow bandmates are helping her with that. Eleven songs and a cover by EWA BRAUN are definitely not black and white. On the contrary, the album is full of colors - the brighter ones and the darker ones as well. However, all of them are intensive and that's a specific sign of PAST. Moreover, the lyric poetry in Polish makes it believable and leaves no space for empty phrases.People who bought this item also bought PURE HELL, VAN DEN BROEKE, JAN, SAKAMOTO, RYUICHI, GUN CLUB, ...

Superlovely Polish four-piece PAST knows just exactly how to summon "the good old times" with their debut-4-track-release aka DEMO. On one hand this postpunk-beast clearly orientates itself to fellow countrymen MADE IN POLAND and the almighty SIEKIERA (Nova Alexandria-era), on the other one can hear a good slice of dreamy VaNNA INGET and X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND - which btw were painted on the back of my very first leatherjacket, hehe. Dreamy and driven, melancholic and yet critical of society - the song "Ulrike" is about German RAF-founder Ulrike Meinhof - theres a distinct leftwing punk background going on, and thats the way it has to be! The rotating female-male vocals are brilliant and add an extra-large special bonus as they are in their mother tongue. Theres no way around PAST if youre in any way into good 80s postpunk!!